"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" by Frank Sinatra written in 1943 by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. The song was introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM film 'Meet Me In St. Louis'.
Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. In 1957 Frank asked Martin to revise the line "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow". He told Martin, "The name of my album is 'A Jolly Christmas, do you think you could jolly up that line for me?" Martin's new line was "Hang a shinging star upon the highest bough." Martin made several other alterations, changing from future tense to the present, so that the songs focus is a celebration of present happiness rather than anticipation of a better future. This was Sinatra's first full-length Christmas album.
In 1963, Sinatra's third recording of the song, recorded for a seasonal compilation album of the same name by various Reprise Records artists was backed by popular Hollywood arranger Gus Levene and his orchestra was it controversially used by director Carl Foreman in his ani-war film 'The Victors' as a backdrop to the execution of a G.I. deserter.
In 9165 Capitol Records reissued the album with new cover art and a new title "The Sinatra Christmas Album.
Some of Frank Sinatra's awards:
1954 Academy Award - Best Supporting Actor - From Here to Eternity
11-time Grammy winner
4-time Golden Globe winner
1966 Peabody Award winner
Medal of Honour of the State of Isreal (1972)
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1972)
Francis Albert Sinatra (12th December 1915 - 14th May 1998)
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